Snap roll Initiation

[Ron Lockhart]

I think the book is trying to say something more like:

A Snap roll is initiated by a pitch break, followed by 
autoration in pitch, roll, and yaw axis simultaneously.

Maybe the current book sentance is a candidate for
a rule proposal revision.

Ron Lockhart

----- Original Message -----
From: "Weimer, Claude" <cweimer at wilkinson-mfg.com>
Date: Monday, June 23, 2003 2:40 pm
Subject: RE: Snap rolls (long)

> Are we trying to read more into judging criteria than is there?  
> The rulebook says simultaneous and I'm not sure the interpretation 
> means the stall has to come before pitch and roll. It seems to me 
> the stall is caused by the change in pitch regardless if yaw and 
> roll are applied at the same time.   
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Patternrules at aol.com [Patternrules at aol.com]
> Sent: Monday, June 23, 2003 11:53 AM
> To: discussion at nsrca.org
> Subject: Re: Snap rolls (long)
> 
> Rule book page 78
> Snaps-----A snap is a simultaneous, rapid autorotation in pitch, 
> yaw and roll axes of flight in a stalled wing attitude. The 
> following criteria apply:
> 
> OK now here's where Earls explanation comes in: and he is correct, 
> now it seems that some wording is off in the rules the word 
> simultaneous should not be there as in the next sentence it 
> clearly says that (initiated by a rapid stall of the wing induced 
> by a change in pitch attitude) this tells me I have been doing 
> this wrong all the time and need to do some work on this maneuver.
> 
> An old fossil head like me it is much easier to do all the sticks 
> at one time, what I have always looked for is like the description 
> on the snip, a cone and it is pretty easy to see when someone is 
> rolling out of the maneuver instead of snapping all the way 
> though. So now all that is left is to try and get these old hands 
> and mind to relearn something in 3 weeks, and review the judging 
> tape another time.
> 
> 
> Thanks
> Steve Maxwell
> 

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